{"nrhp_refnum":"94000070","name":"Miss Amelia's Cottage","other_names":["Jacob Schellinger House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N side Main St., at the jct. of Windmill La., Town of East Hampton","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amagansett","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.97403424300006,"lon":-72.14374948399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-02-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame house with a central brick chimney, built c.1725 on Main Street (Montauk Highway) in the hamlet of Amagansett, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York. It was built by Jacob Schellinger and moved about 100 feet east c.1790.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving example of early-eighteenth-century residential architecture in East Hampton. It is an intact example of the one-story \"Cape Cod cottage\" form, with a central-chimney floor plan. It also has an unusual wall construction using vertical oak planks instead of wall studs. Later updates reflect changing tastes through the nineteenth century.","narrative":"Miss Amelia's Cottage, also called the Jacob Schellinger House, is a one-story frame dwelling on the north side of Main Street in Amagansett, East Hampton. Jacob Schellinger built it about 1725, and around 1790 Jonathan Schellinger moved it roughly 100 feet east to its present spot beside his father's house. It has a low rubble foundation, a high-pitched gable roof, a three-bay front, and a massive central brick chimney, with rooms arranged around the chimney. Several walls use oak planks spiked between the posts in place of conventional studs, an unusual method of construction. Interior finishes show Federal-period and mid-nineteenth-century updates. The house was listed as a rare, intact early example of the local vernacular Cape Cod cottage and as a reminder of East Hampton's agrarian past. Mary Amelia Schellinger, born there in 1841, owned it until 1930, giving it its popular name. The Amagansett Historical Association acquired it in 1964 and operates it as a museum.","period_of_significance":"c.1725-c.1900","architect_builder":"Jacob Schellinger (builder); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial/post medieval English","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Operated as a historic house museum by the Amagansett Historical Association, which bought it in 1964.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.454705-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000070.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000070/18fb8b019a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000070/18fb8b019a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amy-cottage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amy-cottage.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322182","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Cottage_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4742237"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/miss-amelias-cottage-94000070/"}